Hail to the Chairman

The week after the U.S. Presidential election, the writer and New Yorker contributor Jaime Wolf was in Shanghai, where a young optician in the vast subterranean wholesale eyeglass market beneath the train station said to him, “So, you have a new Chairman?” Here, in the spirit of the Inauguration, are a couple of Wolf’s photographs of book stores in Bangkok and Shanghai, showing that Obama fever (or, at least, merchandising) is not just a domestic phenomenon.

At a mall on Sathorn Road, Bangkok, Thailand.

The Old China Hand Bookshop, on Shaoxing Lu, in Shanghai’s French Concession.

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